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Rev Cent Dermatol Pascua 2010; 19 (2)

Relapsing auricular chondritis

Maldonado GCA, Marín HE, Sánchez FD, Maya AS, Sil ZS

Language: Spanish
References: 34
Page: 67-74
PDF size: 361.92 Kb.


ABSTRACT

We report the case of a male 18 years of age with recurrent bilateral auricular chondritis associated with Raynaud’s phenomenon. This raises the possibility that the clinical expression in this patient, is a nascent and oligosymptomatic relapsing polychondritis.


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